Underground Art Gallery
OUR FALL '09 GALLERY EXHIBITION!!!
Photo journalist Nina Berman
"Evidence and Fantasy: Militarism in American Life"
with photographs from "Purple Hearts," "Marine Wedding," and "Homeland"
Photo by Nina Berman, from "Purple Hearts"
Nina Berman is a documentary photographer with a primary interest in the American political and social landscape.
Internationally known for her photographs of wounded American military, Nina Berman's exhibit "Evidence and Fantasy: Militarism in American Life" includes work from her series "Purple Hearts," portraits and interviews with wounded veterans, "Marine Wedding," and "Homeland," a look at militarism, religion and security in post 9-11 America.
Check out the NY Times articles on Marine Wedding and Purple Hearts.
Photo by Nina Berman, "Red Carpet" from "Purple Hearts"
Her work has been extensively published, exhibited and collected, garnering praise in both the art and journalism worlds. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, awards from the World Press Photo Foundation, and a grant from the Open Society Institute Documentary Photography Fund. She is a member of NOOR, a worldwide photo collective. She is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography and lives in her hometown, New York City.
Meet the artist on Veterans Day, when Nina Berman comes to the Sanctuary to discuss her work and share a multi-media presentation. For more information about this event, check out our Nov. 11 event, Veterans Day Reflections on the Casualties of War.
“I don’t believe in the notion of the objective photographer,
that somehow a photo is balanced and you’re dispassionate.”
“I don’t think that would have value.
That’s like a security camera.”
“That doesn’t mean
I have an agenda.
But I do have areas of interest.”
Nina Berman in The War's Long Shadows- Lens Blog-NYTimes.com
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We bring innovative media and visual artists to the Capital Region of New York State, and are dedicated to presenting artists whom mainstream media and art venues often neglect. We especially seek artists who push their art to create new languages and expressive forms; we feature works with an aesthetic and conceptual edge that challenge the viewers to look at the world anew.
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CURRENTLY IN THE SANCTUARY WISH GARDEN--
local artist Sara Worden's
permaculture project,
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LAST SEASON'S EXHIBITION
Photo journalist Brenda Ann Kenneally's
"Upstate Girls: What Became of Collar City"
We strive to inspire folks by bringing visibility to cutting edge creative projects and networks, and by educating them to use media arts and technology for creative resistance projects designed to motivate citizens to integrate art and independent, critical thinking into their active lives.
Check out more about Brenda Ann Kenneally's "Upstate Girls" at: the Raw Files.
“Upstate Girls” is a look at a part of working class America that, despite sweeping technological advances, remains essentially unchanged since the heyday of the Industrial Revolution—an indictment of the by-products of globalization that shape the American visual and social landscape. The ongoing project aims deep into the emotional and psychological cycle of poverty from a women’s eye view. 
The photographs are on display in the Underground Gallery at The Sanctuary for Independent Media, available for viewing an hour before, during and an hour after events and by arrangement. Visit www.therawfile.org for more of Brenda Ann Kenneally’s work.
Award-winning photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally is a mother and an independent journalist whose long-term projects are intimate portraits of social issues that intersect where the personal is political. She began reporting in 2004 on the lives of five teen girls from north Troy who would come of age in an industrial city in post-industrial America. She is working to push the boundaries of the social document, using the web as a tool to expand and contextualize her immersion style of reporting. Her many awards include the W. Eugene Smith Award for Humanistic Photography, a Soros Criminal Justice Fellowship, the Mother Jones Documentary Photography Award, the International Prize for Photojournalism, a Nikon Sabbatical Grant, the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism award, and the Cannon Female Photojournalism Grant. Born in Albany, she now lives in Brooklyn.
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Media Alliance's Arts and Education program strives to inspire folks by bringing visibility to cutting edge creative projects and networks. We use media arts and technology for creative resistance projects designed to motivate citizens to integrate art and independent, critical thinking into their active lives.
Just a few doors down from the lot in the photo above, where "Sponge Bob" poses, the Sanctuary's Underground Art Gallery is a recently remodeled 280 sq. ft. museum quality gallery exposition space. The walls are painted matte white for traditional gallery appearance and the ceiling exposes extensive track lighting that can be adjusted to suite any exhibit. It's uniqueness lies in its hallway linearity, allowing the viewer to flow through the space.
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